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Blogging special sports events and storiesTue, 31 Mar 2015 18:17:46 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3Attorney: ‘Sad’ that Tyler Deric has to go through thishttp://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2012/02/attorney-sad-that-tyler-deric-has-to-go-through-this/
http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2012/02/attorney-sad-that-tyler-deric-has-to-go-through-this/#commentsTue, 07 Feb 2012 23:52:58 +0000http://blog.chron.com/soccer/?p=2732This Saturday I was almost moved to write a blog about Tyler Deric.

Tyler Deric's season has been thrown into uncertainty. (Andrew Richardson/For The Chronicle)

After playing in the rain against Houston Baptist University, Deric asked coach Dominic Kinnear for special permission to return to the locker room later than the rest of his teammates so he could work with the Dynamo Academy goalkeeper before a game.

From my interactions with Deric, I consider him a good kid. He’s respectful, and he always has a smile on his face. Later that night, he was arrested at the Roosevelt Lounge and accused of assaulting a public servant at the bar on Washington.

As I try to flesh out the rest of the story and re-write what I sent online, I think it’s important to give Deric’s side as well from his attorney Allen Tanner.

“He’s not guilty of anything,” Tanner said. “This whole incident revolves around the fact that Mr. Deric was with other soccer players … the club did not want them coming in. There was a lot of … stuff going on there at the club that will come out eventually. That’s all I could say now. He’s not guilty of assaulting that off-duty officer.”

I’ve been trying to get a comment from the Roosevelt bar, but phone calls haven’t yet been answered.

“We have a lot of witnesses who saw what happened,” Tanner said. “I’m in the process of getting statements from all of them. I’m getting statements from a lot of witnesses, and several of them are Dynamo players who saw everything that happened.

“It’s very sad that this kid, who is an outstanding young kid, has to go through this process.”

Tanner said Deric had just arrived at the bar shortly before he was arrested.